Media releases

  • The Fostering Network welcomes television chef, author and care leaver Lorraine Pascale to her role as Government Fostering Ambassador in England.

  • Please take note of our helpline and FosterLine closing times over the Christmas and New Year.

  • The Fostering Network will be asking people to consider their own personal connection to fostering and to find out whether they have the skills to make a difference to a child’s life during Foster Care Fortnight ™ 2015.

  • The Fostering Network today welcomes the news that the Scottish Government has laid down in the Scottish Parliament an amendment to The Looked after Children (Scotland) Regulations to introduce placement limits to foster care.

  • The Fostering Network has today published a collection of poems and short stories written by children and young people who live in fostering families, called Growing Up in our House.

    The writing, submitted to a competition as part of the 2014 Sons & Daughters: Celebrating the foster family campaign, was judged by acclaimed children’s author and long-term supporter of The Fostering Network, Jacqueline Wilson.

  • Growing Up in our House

  • The Fostering Network in Scotland is running a Christmas e-card competition for children and young people from across Scotland.

  • The Fostering Network is inviting its foster carer and fostering service members to a series of exclusive events across England in the new year.

  • The Fostering Network is seeking intrepid explorers and adventure seekers to join us in October 2015 in trekking the Great Wall of China.

  • Fostering services and employers in England can help increase the range of skills being brought into fostering by providing flexible working conditions for foster carers, according to a new report published today by The Fostering Network.